Qualitative and Archival Methods Reading List

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PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

Causation, Explanation, and Inference
 

- Almond, Gabriel and Genco, Stephen. 1977. “Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics.” World Politics. Vol. 29 No. 4: 489-522.
- Bhaskar, Roy, 1998. Chapters 1-3. The Possibility of Naturalism. Routledge.
- Brady, Henry E. 2008. “Causation and Explanation in Social Science.” Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology.
- Elster, Jon. 2007. Chapters 1,2, 16, and Conclusion. Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
- Hall, Peter. 2003. “Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Research,” Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences.”
- Hempel, Carl G. 1994. “The Function of General Laws in History.” Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science. 43-54.
- Holland, Paul W. 1986. “Statistics and Causal Inference.” Journal of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 81 No. 396: 945-960.
- Hume, David. 1993. Pages 39-64. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Hackett Publishing.
- Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1978. Chapters 1-3.. Theoretical Methods in Social History. Academic Press, Inc.
- Weber, Max. 1949. “Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy,” The Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Complex causation
 

- Bennett, Andrew and Elman, Colin. 2006a. “Complex Casual Relations and Case Study Methods: the Example of Path Dependence.” Political Analysis. 250-267.
- Davidson, Donald. 1963. “Actions, Reasons, Causes,” Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford University Press.
- Hayek, F.A.. 1994. “The Theory of Complex Phenomena.” Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science. MIT Press.
- Hedström, Peter and Petri Ylikoski. 2010. “Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences” Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 36: 49-67
- Mackie, J.L. 1965. “Causes and Conditions.” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 2: 245-264.
- Ragin, Charles. 1989. Chapters 2, 6, 7 and 8. The Comparative Method. University of California.
- Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society. University of California Press.
-Peter Winch, “The Idea of a Social Science”, in Bryan Wilson ed. Rationality (1986), 1- 17.

RESEARCH DESIGN
 

- Adcock, Robert and David Collier. 2001. “Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research.” APSR. Vol. 95 No. 3: 529-46.
- Brady, Henry, and David Collier. 2010. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Rowman & Littlefield.
- Collier, David and James Mahoney. 1996. “Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research.” World Politics. 56-91.
- Dunning, Thad. Chapters 1, 7 and 8. Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences: A Design-Based Approach. Cambridge University Press
- Geddes, Barbara. 1990. “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics.” Political Analysis. 131-50.
- George, Alexander L and Andrew Bennett. 2005. Chapters 1, 3, and 10. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. MIT.
- Kalyvas, Stathis. 2006. Appendix A. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge University Press.
- Lieberson, Stanley. 1991. “Small N’s and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases.” Social Forces. Vol. 70 ,No. 2: 307-320.
- Lieberman, Evan S. 2005. “Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research.” American Political Science Review Vol. 99, No. 3: 535-42.
- Mahoney, James. 2010. “After KKV: The New Methodology of Qualitative Research.” World Politics. Vol. 62, No. 1: 120–47
- Mahoney, James and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. 2003. Chapters 9 and 10. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press
- Mahoney, James and Gary Goertz. 2006. “A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research.” Political Analysis. 227-49.
- Przeworski, Adam, and Henry Teune. 1970. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. Wiley.
- Sekhon, Jasjeet S. 2004. “Quality Meets Quantity: Case Studies, Conditional Probability, and Counterfactuals.” Perspectives on Politics Vol. 2, No. 2: 281-93.
- Snyder, Richard. 2001. “Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 36, No. 1: 93-110.

Process tracing
 

- Gryzmala-Busse, Anna. 2011. “Time Will Tell? Temporality and the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms and Processes.” Comparative Political Studies. 44 (9): 1267-1297.
- Bennett and Checkel. 2014. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 9. Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool. Cambridge University Press
- Collier, David. 2011. “Understanding Process Tracing.” PS: Political Science and Politics. 823-830.

FIELD RESEARCH METHODS

- Aunger, Robert. 1994. “Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: Food avoidance in the Ituri forest, Zaire.” Ethnology. 65-99.
- Bernard, H. Russell. 2011. Chapters 8, 12 and 13. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Alta Mira Press.
- Dewalt, Kathleen M. and Billie R. Dewalt. 2002. Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers. Alta Mira Press.
- Fenno, Richard. 1978. “Appendix- Notes on Method: Participant Observation,” in Home Style: House Members in their Districts. Little, Brown, and Co., pp. 249-95.
- Fujii, Lee Ann. 2010. “The Truth in Lies: Evaluating Testimonies of War and Genocide in Rwanda.” Journal of Peace Research.
- Lofland, John, David Snow, Leon Anderson, and Lyn Lofland. 2006. Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis. Wadsworth.
- Schatz, Edward. 2009. Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 13. Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. University of Chicago Press.
- Sluka, Jeffrey A. 2007. “R eflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork: Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast,” in Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Antonius C. G. M.Robben and Jeffrey A Sluka eds: Blackwell, 259-70.
- Van Mannen, Jon. 1988. Tales of the Field. University of Chicago Press.
- Wood, Elisabeth. 2008. “Field Research,” The Handbook of Comparative Politics. Oxford.

FIELD RESEARCH
 

- Anderson, Elijah. 2000. Code of the street: decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. Norton & Company.
- Autesserre, Séverine. 2014. Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention. Cambridge University Press.
- Bourgois, Philippe. 2003. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge.
- Cohen, Cathy J. 1999. The boundaries of blackness: AIDS and the breakdown of black politics. University of Chicago Press.
- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. 1899. The Philadelphia Negro: a social study.
- Geertz, Clifford. 1973. “Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” in The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books.
- Graetz, Michael J. and Ian Shapiro. 2005. Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth. Princeton University Press.
- Kim, Claire Jean. 2003. Bitter fruit: The politics of black-Korean conflict in New York City. Yale University Press.
- Pachirat, Timothy. 2011. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. Yale University Press.
- Scott, James C. 1986. Weapons of the Weak. Yale University Press.
- Soss, Joe. 2002. Unwanted claims: The politics of participation in the US welfare system. University of Michigan Press.
- Strolovitch, Dara Z. 2008. Affirmative advocacy: Race, class, and gender in interest group politics. University of Chicago Press.
- Waters, Mary C. 2001. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities.
- Wedeen, Lisa. 1999. Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. University of Chicago Press.
- Wood, Elisabeth Jean. 2003. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. Cambridge University Press.

ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
 

- The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. 1979. Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of the Human Subjects of Research.
- Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (the “Common Rule”), see http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/45-cfr-46/ind…
- Fujii, Lee Ann. “Research Ethics 101: Dilemmas and Responsibilities.” PS: Political Science & Politics. Vol. 45, No. 4: 717-23.
- Jaarsma, Sjorerd ed. 2002. Handle With Care. Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials. Pittsburgh.
- Kelman, Herbert. 1972. “The Rights of the Subject in Social Research: An analysis in terms of Relative Power and Legitimacy.” American Psychologist. Vol. 27, No. 11: 989-1016.
- Murphy, Elizabeth and Robert Dingwall. 2007. “The Ethics of Ethnography.” In Paul Atkinson, ed. The Handbook of Ethnography. 339-351. Sage.

ARCHIVAL METHODS
 

- Bloch, Marc. 1954. The Historian’s Craft. Manchester University Press.
- Greenstein, Fred I. and Richard H. Immerman. 1992. “What Did Eisenhower Tell Kennedy About Indochina? The Politics of Misperception.” Journal of American History. Vol. 79, No. 2.
- Hill, Michael R. 1993. Archival strategies and techniques. Sage.
- Howell, Martha and Walter Prevenier. 2001. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods. Cornell University Press.
- Novick, Peter. 1988. That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge University Press.
- Trachtenberg, Marc. 2006. The Craft of International History. Princeton University Press.
- White, Hayden. 1975. Introduction. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Johns Hopkins University Press.

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
 

- EH Carr, Chapter on Weimar foreign policy. What is History. Penguin.
- Allison, Graham. 1999. The Essence of Decision.
- Browning, Christopher. 1992. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. Harper.
- Goldhagen, Daniel. 1996. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Final Solution. Knopf.
Daniel J. Goldhagen, Christopher R. Browning, and Leon Wieseltier The “Willing Executioners”/”Ordinary Men” Debate. US National Holocaust Museum. https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/Publication_OP_1996-01.pdf
- Lee, Taeku. 2002. Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era. University of Chicago.

- Skrentny, John David. 2009. The Minority Rights Revolution. Harvard University Press.
- Tong, James. 1991. Disorder Under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty. Stanford.
- Weaver, Vesla M. 2007. “Frontlash: Race and the development of punitive crime policy.” Studies in American Political Development. Vol. 21, No. 2: 230.
- Weber, Eugen. 1976. Peasants into Frenchmen. Stanford.

DATA AND CODING
 

- Bernard, H. Russell. 2011. Chapters 18 and 19. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Alta Mira Press.
- Campbell, Angus et al. 1960. Chapter 10. The American Voter. University of Chicago.
- Cusack, Thomas R., Torben Iversen, and David Soskice. 2007. “Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems.” American Political Science Review 101 (3): 373-391.
- Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice. 2010. “Coevolution of Capitalism and Political Representation - The Choice of Electoral Systems.” American Political Science Review. 104 (2): 393-403 [response to Kreuzer 2010, see below]
- Dahl, Robert A. 1961. Who Governs? Book III (“Patterns of Influence”), Appendixes AC.
- Fenno, Richard F., Jr. 1973. Introduction and Chapters 1-3. Congressmen in Committees.
- Franzosi, Roberto. 2009. Chapters 1 and 2. Quantitative Narrative Analysis. Sage
- Gerring, John. 1998. Chapters 1-3 and Appendix. Party Ideologies in America, 1828- 1996.
- Hochschild, Jennifer. 1981. Chapters 1-3 and Appendix B. What’s Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice.
- Kreuzer, Marcus. 2010. “Historical Knowledge and Quantitative Analysis: The Case of the Origins of Proportional Representation.” American Political Science Review Vol. 104, No. 2.
- Lane, Robert E. 1962. Introduction, Section I, and Appendix A. Political Ideology.
- Mayhew, David. 1991. Chapter 4. Divided We Govern. Yale University Press.
- Przeworski, Alvarez, Limongi & Cheibub. 2000. Chapter 1 (including appendices). Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press.
- Ryan, Gary W and H. Russell Bernard. 2003. “Data Management and Analysis Methods,” in Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln eds: Sage, pp. 259-309.
- Wilkinson, Steven. 2004. Appendix A. Votes and Violence. Cambridge.

COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
 

- Bensel, Richard Franklin. 1984. Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980. The University of Wisconsin Press.
- Gorski, Philip S. 2003. The disciplinary revolution: Calvinism and the rise of the state in early modern Europe. University of Chicago Press.
- Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson. 2002. “Business Power and Social Policy: Employers and the Formation of the American Welfare State.” Politics & Society. Vol. 30, No. 2: 277-325.
- Lawrence, Adria. 2013. Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press.
- Luebbert, Gregory. 1987. “Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe.” World Politics. Vol. 39, No. 4: 449-478.
- Mahoney, James and Kathleen Thelen. 2015. Chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
- March, James G. and Johan P. Olsen. 1984. “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life.” American Political Science Review. 734-49.
- Mayhew, David. 2005. “War and American Politics.” Perspectives on Politics.
- Orren, Karen and Stephen Skowronek. 1994. “Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a ‘New Institutionalism.’” In The Dynamics of American Politics. Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, eds. Bolder: Westview.
- Padgett, John and Christopher Ansell. 1993. “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434.” American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 98, No. 6: 1259-1319.
- Rokkan, Stein. 1999. Part IV “Cleavage Structure and Party Systems,” pages 275-340. In State Formation, Nation Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Ed. Peter Flora. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Sahlins, Peter. 1988. “The Nation in the Village: State-Building and Communal Struggles in the Catalan Borderland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Journal of Modern History. Vol. 60, No. 2: 234-263.
- Schickler, Eric. 2001. Disjointed pluralism: institutional innovation and the development of the U.S. Congress. Princeton University Press.
- Scott, James C. 1999. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press
- Sewell, William. 1996. “Political Events as Structural Transformations: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille.” Theory and Society. Vol. 24: 841-81.
- Shefter, Martin. 1977. “Party and Patronage: Germany, England, and Italy.” Politics and Society. Vol. 7: 403-451.
- Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge University Press.
- Skowronek, Stephen. 1982. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920. Cambridge University Press.
- Swenson, Peter. 2002. Parts I and II. Pages 1-23, 39-90, and 215-269. Capitalists against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden. Oxford.
- Swenson, Peter. 2004. “Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions, and the Regulatory Welfare State in the United States and Sweden.” Studies in American Political Development. Vol. 18, No. 1: 1-29. See also the response by Jacob Jacker and Paul Pierson, Vol. 18, No. 2: 186-195, and Swenson’s rejoinder, 18 (2), pp. 196-200.

Rev. 2016-06-03